Ambition is the path to success persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life it supports them all lends strength to them all ambition cruelty avarice revenge are all founded on lust.

Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable and have every word received with a religious respect.

The incentive to ambition is the love of power.

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

My mother carried on and supported us her ambition had been to write poetry and songs.

My actions to promote peace the mediation missions which I carried out during many conflicts which very often occurred between brothers of the same country are not driven by any ulterior motives or any calculations based on personal ambitions.

Mr. President prime ministers let us have ambitions: ambitions to move beyond the violence and occupation to the day when two states Palestine and Israel can live together side by side in peace and security.

America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.

Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.

The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise.

All I wanted to do was write - at the time poems and prose too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way and I didn't need much I was unmarried at the time no children.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity must it not be our ambition to become men?

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

I have no ambition to govern men it is a painful and thankless office.

Men rise from one ambition to another: first they seek to secure themselves against attack and then they attack others.

Men often pass from love to ambition but they seldom come back again from ambition to love.

A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.

Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life with all those material interests and earthly ambitions.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

There is however another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons eminent for their knowledge it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list.

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.